Sign in using your Mi account and give valid reasons on why you want to unlock the bootloader. Just be honest here. I mentioned the fact about the bugs in the upgrade and hence i wanted to try custom roms. I had to wait for 3 days before my application was accepted. You will receive an SMS to your mobile number confirming that you have received the permission to unlock the BL.

After getting fedup, i decided to contact the MI live Chat support to know what their feedback was. I had a chat with three different agents and three of them had 3 different solutions 😀

# Miss Shankunthala ( names have been changed ) told me a pretty funny reason. Mi took away the option to unlock BL for Indian customers, citing security reasons 😛 So for indians, its kind of banned and if i really need to unlock, i would need to visit the local service center. On asking whats special at a service center, she replied, they have a special USB cable to unlock this. I almost fainted ( I have the chat saved with me 🙂

# The other two agents told me , to reapply for permission. But if you once applied for permission, you will not even see an option to request again. These guys were asking me to do something which isn’t there in the first place.

By this time, i felt insane for the replies i got. I flashed the Stable ROM back and was waiting to see how to get this done.

I decided to wait for few days before trying again. Waited for 3 days and gave it a try and hurraaaaay !! no error this time at 50%, it got completed. Really not sure on what is the real issue, the support at Mi isn’t ready to disclose this yet. May be I had to wait 3 days for my data to get propagated at Mi unlock servers 😛

From PHP 7.0.0, it supports 64-bit architecture. To find if your PHP is 64- bit or not, open PHP info window and search for Architecture.

Also it will be Thread safe OR Non-Thread safe. We can use phpinfo for this one too. Check for thread safety in phpinfo window, If thread safety is disabled then your PHP is Non-Thread safe.

Once you determine the correct PHP Type, download the appropriate dll files from the above mentioned link. Copy and paste it to PHP extension folder. ( In default – C:\Programfiles OR Program Files (x86) \PHP\v7.0\ext )

Once completed, restart your web server.

After restarting, open IIS manager and look for PHP Manager in it. Double click on PHP Manager and open it. Then in right pan you can see a new window called PHP Setup.

If you are opening PHP manager for the first time, then you will see a message. ( red circlein the following image ) . Click on that and enable all.

Then click on ‘Enable OR Disable Extension’ tab and find for php_imagick.dll . Click on it then click Enable button in the right side panel to enable ImageMagic Extension.

Once enabled, restart IIS.

Once completed, open phpinfo page. You will be able to see that imagick module is added with php.

A recent upgrade from cPanel / WHM 11.54 resulted in the services getting broken and not able to access the services. Was able to find the following in the logs when attempt to restart cPanel was made :